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Composer of the Week Barber

BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

With Humphrey Burton.
4: Life at Capricorn. In 1943, Barber and his friend Gian Carlo Menotti bought a secluded home, Capricorn, near Mount Kisco, about 50 miles from New York City.
"I think I'm a country person ... Like Messiaen, I like birds. And I need the absolute silence of the country." (Barber, 1981)
Capricorn Concerto San Diego CO, conductor
Donald Barra Knoxville : Summer of 1915 Leontyne Price (soprano), New Philharmonia, conductor Thomas Schippers
Souvenirs, Op 28 (excerpts) Margarita and Olga Malinova (piano duet) A Hand of Bridge
Patricia Neway (soprano), Eunice Alberts (contralto), William Lewis (tenor), Philip Maero (baritone), Symphony of the Air, conductor Vladimir Golschmann
Repeated next Thursday 12 midnight

Contributors

Unknown:
Humphrey Burton.
Unknown:
Gian Carlo Menotti
Conductor:
Donald Barra Knoxville
Conductor:
Thomas Schippers
Conductor:
Olga Malinova
Soprano:
Patricia Neway
Soprano:
Eunice Alberts
Contralto:
William Lewis
Tenor:
Philip Maero
Conductor:
Vladimir Golschmann
Source: Radio Times

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